Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-01-22

HITLER AND THITHER.


A Washington special to The Hes York
-Ners says: It Is hinted that tie names of
congressman holding calls on Union Pacific
will soon be published, and there is much
alarm in certain circles. 1t is rImored that
over S2,00J,' % can be traced = members a.
having been paid by the railroad to secure the
passage of the funding bill. One con-
gresham is said to have received $3.50 CO.,
The lobbyist Sherril paid out ever $500, ,0N the
week before he died.
The body Of William Earl was found hang
Ing to rafter in one OF his barns in Union
county, New Jersey recently He was well
| known throughout the state 80 the proprietor
OF large cider mills, which were established by
his father. For several months past Earl has
met with reverses which, 1t IL supposed, un-
| settled his mind.
| Denver dispatch says the convention of
district assembly No. 50, Knights of Labor,
embracing every town on the line of the Union
| Pacific railroad, inChDrsed General Master
| Workman Powderly's action in the settlement
OF the Southwestern strike. Tn ..onvention
pronounc MIR. POwderly one Of the greatest
statesmen OF the age and pledged its men,
bers to stand BY him in his work
The French minister of commerce announces
That for the first time in history wheat OF ex-
cellent quality and superior weight has been
| exported by Russia from the Caucasus Large
| cargos have been sent from the ports Of POti
and Batoum.
In the federal court at st. Louis, on q plea
ofguilty, Joseph II. White was sentenced to
three years in the penitentiary for counterfeit
ing Brazilian bank notes.
George Keck, for many years assistant su-
perntendent Of the inirmary at Akron, Ohio,
has been arrested for criminal intimacy with
an insane inmate. He intends TO retaliate by
statement that the bodies OF deceased paupers
are regularly sold to medical college in Cleye-
land.
The comptroller Of the currency feels COM
PEELED to take action upon the matter of called
bonds owned BY the national banks as he has
q, ,y9o, 400 OF matured per cents deposited TO
secure circulation.
The Prince of Wales will preside at the
meeting of lords lieutenants, mayors, and 9TH
er public officials from all parts OF the king
dom to discuss the proposal to establish an inn.
perial institute.
The marquis of Queensbury is 42 years OF
age. He was married on Feb. 26, 1865, TO
Sybil, daughter Of Alfred Montgomery, ESQ,
by whom he has had four sons and one
daughter.
The Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul road
has secured right of way into Kansas CITY
rom the north, in addition 10 entrance over
the belt line on the south.
The marquis of Queensbury has not lived
with his wife for twelve years, but has kept
under his roof woman whose presence there
forms the basis of suit for divorce on the
ground of adulterty.
A man claiming to be the perpetrator OF the
recent dynamite outrage on a cable road in
San Francisco has written to a newspaper in
that city that the responsible parties are men,
bers OF an organization formed in Chica 90
directly after the Haymarket explosion.
James +. Joy, in reviewing the events of the
past month along the Wabash lines of railway,
expresses the opinion that all plans of the pur-
chasing committee have failed and that the
system" will be broken up.
Miss Ollie Brown, of -Mid.iletown, New
York, has been sen: to an insane asylum, the
result of slanderous reports circulated by
John w. Baird. She attempted suicide with
pocket-knife.
-Four young men were hanged at sydney,
New South Wales, for brutal assault on a girl
Of 10 years, whom they had decoyed into a
suburb.
special agency to Herbert F. Beecher, of WASH
ington territory, a son of the Brooklyn divine.
The Burlington road has during the past
year expended $5O0,OOO in improvements on
the Hannibal and st. Joseph leased line.
The British government refuses the privi-
iege to parade with arms to the Gate City
guard, of Atlanta, Georgia, which planned q
tour of Europe.
The duke of Sunderland and party have ar
ryen in Charleston, to take yacht cruise to
Cuba
New York is threatened with a famine in
fuel on account of a strike Of coal-heavers in
New Jersey.
The ignition of flour dust caused the wreck
Of mill at CarbeTy, Manitoba, valued at
s35, ,0O0
Burglars who took 500 from the grocery
store o. Padburg IL Brother, St Louis, over
looked package of 81 09O in currency.
John Roach, the famous ship builder, is
kept in bed under the influence of anyodynes.
His physicians regard his cancer as likely to
cause his death this month.
Assignments have been made by Edward
Marchessaw, owner of a rice-mill at New Or
leans, and Ames, Beattie & Co., furniture
dealers, at Memphis.
A receiver has been appointed by a London
court for the Monarch Steamship company,
against which corporation three petitions for q
declaration Of bankruptcy had been filed.
Lord Lansdowne, governor general o. Can
ada, admits having received from Lord Sails
bury an inquiry whether he would join the
government, to which he replied that he was
not prepared to sever so abruptly his connec-
tion with the Dominion.
Benjamin F. Brooks, a leading member OF
the Boston bar, expired very suddenly from
apoplexy.
Three members Of the Salvation army at Sc
daia, Missouri, were heavily fined for a brutal
assault upon country lad who attempted to
escort home female soldier at the close OF q
service
Frederick Raine, consul general at Berlin,
has informed the state department that Amer
lean citizens suffer great annoyance in Europe
unless equipped with passports.
Slight shocks of earthquake are still mat
ter of daily occurrence at Summervills, South
Carolina.